Species survival is taking a back seat to politics across Western North America, and globally, as 2013 comes to a close. If you are a four-footed carnivore, or a horned inhabitant of Africa’s plains, …

Seventy-five members of Congress are demanding that the Obama administration end all protection of the gray wolf as “endangered” or “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act, in an effort …

The Obama administration wants two neutral, university-based environmental mediators to tackle the 20-year impasse over restoring Columbia and Snake River salmon runs by doing a “situation assessment” …